All the chic snowflake decorating is all very good, but at Christmas you need a bit of bling: lots of warm bright colours and sparkly stuff to brighten the place up a bit.
With this in mind, we will decorate the window with strings of red and gold circles:
We usually have a cardboard Christmas Star hanging in the windows, but it looked a little lonely so we will make garlands to match it.
Lets raid our recycling box for lots of empty cardboard boxes and cut out circles in different sizes, and then decorate them with red yarn, felt, chocolate coin foil, and an assortment of red and gold christmas wrap, lovely shiny pieces saved from previous years.
Cut out an inner circle from some of the circles to make ring shapes - some of these we can glue paper onto both sides, but others wrapped with red yarn as if making a very skinny pompom: it takes a little while but the effect is very nice and the yarn makes a great contrast against the super-shiny paper and foil. Felt circles have a similar soft, textured effect.
Once you've made lots of circles, I lay them all out on the kitchen table to arrange them into garlands so you got a nice mix of shapes and colours, and then started putting the strings together.
Each garland starts with a bauble at the bottom for a bit of weight and then each circle or ring is tied on to the yarn with about an inch gap left between them. Punche holes in most of the circles to do this (using an ordinary holepunch) but use a darning needle to get the yarn through the felt ones.
Then hang them like the snowflake garlands, from the curtain hooks left by the old curtains - you could hang them from a string or use drawing pins to hold them in place, or maybe make a festive mobile from short strands. They spin really nicely.
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With this in mind, we will decorate the window with strings of red and gold circles:
We usually have a cardboard Christmas Star hanging in the windows, but it looked a little lonely so we will make garlands to match it.
Lets raid our recycling box for lots of empty cardboard boxes and cut out circles in different sizes, and then decorate them with red yarn, felt, chocolate coin foil, and an assortment of red and gold christmas wrap, lovely shiny pieces saved from previous years.
Cut out an inner circle from some of the circles to make ring shapes - some of these we can glue paper onto both sides, but others wrapped with red yarn as if making a very skinny pompom: it takes a little while but the effect is very nice and the yarn makes a great contrast against the super-shiny paper and foil. Felt circles have a similar soft, textured effect.
Once you've made lots of circles, I lay them all out on the kitchen table to arrange them into garlands so you got a nice mix of shapes and colours, and then started putting the strings together.
Each garland starts with a bauble at the bottom for a bit of weight and then each circle or ring is tied on to the yarn with about an inch gap left between them. Punche holes in most of the circles to do this (using an ordinary holepunch) but use a darning needle to get the yarn through the felt ones.
Then hang them like the snowflake garlands, from the curtain hooks left by the old curtains - you could hang them from a string or use drawing pins to hold them in place, or maybe make a festive mobile from short strands. They spin really nicely.
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